Our verdict on Exit Party by Emily St. John Mandel: Not her best book

Check your subscription status, update your details and more. Our verdict on Exit Party by Emily St. John Mandel: Not her best book The New Scientist Book Club has been reading the Station Eleven author's latest speculative novel.

While they found lots of things to praise, there were criticisms of the pace of this near-future-set story, says Alison Flood The New Scientist Book Club read Exit Party by Emily St. John Mandel in October After a deep dive into particle physics in September with cosmologist Chanda Prescod-Weinstein’s non-fiction title _The Edge of Space-Time_, in October the New Scientist Book Club stuck with physics but made it fictional, with Emily St. John Mandel’s new speculative fiction novel _Exit Party_.

Set in the near future, this is a tale involving quantum entanglement and parallel worlds, but Mandel being Mandel, it’s much more a tale of the people who live in those worlds than the physics that makes them possible. Our sci-fi columnist Emily H. Wilson gave it a glowing review, saying _Exit Party_ was “as elegant and brilliantly executed as [Mandel’s] fans will have grown to expect”.

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